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Tips on How Not To Get Distracted by Social Media, Be Productive, and Stay Focused.

How To Commit Social Media Suicide, UnPlug, and take your life back.

Services that specializes in doing exactly that: erasing your social media history and presence completely.

How do we live continually connected without being continually distracted?

Relevancy

is the
emerging paradigm

It is NOT about whether “to follow or not follow” or “to friend or not friend.” Companies need to see that their job is not to provide us data, or even keep us updated — it is to serve our needs.

Social email software provider harmon.ie found that individual employees are burning an average of $10,375 in productivity each year.
mashable.com/2011/05/27/digital-distraction-survey/

"The Twitter Trap" Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, writes about the challenges of staying focused.
nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/the-twitter-trap.html?_r=4&ref=todayspaper

"The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.” He continued, “Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from … from … wait, what was I saying?""

The Filter Bubble

Twitter's focus on relevance is echoed in the activities of other web giants like Google and Facebook. They are attempting to do the filtering for us, such that we only see what they think most interests us.

How Much
Do You Want?

Cisco Systems, “In 2010, there were 12.5 billion devices connected to the Internet. Looking to the future, Cisco IBSG predicts there will be 25 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2015, and 50 billion by 2020.”
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/how-the-internet-of-things-will-change-everything%E2%80%94including-ourselves/

Keeping your online history private is becoming harder and harder.

Managers are now making use of the search engines to screen job applicants. Damaging information about you can be found online and can hinder your chances of landing that much desired career.

Things that you can do to erase your online history.

  1. Search for yourself on the search engines
    using your last name, your hometown, college or any organization you are or were a member for. For example, the Latin organization on campus, sorority or fraternity,
  2. Reset your privacy settings and block outsiders on all your social networking and limit access.
  3. Take down your own embarrasing posts.
  4. Request removal of material: Depending on the content, you can either politely or firmly request removal of online history. Of course, they are not obligated to remove material, but using the correct approach can take you a long way. The target person in this case is usually the website administrator. The simplest way to go about it is via email.

Be in charge of your Brand / Your Identity

Start a blog The best way to push the negative back is to flood the internet with attractive posts.

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Et tu, Fallows? RT @hc: Did Harvard, NYT and Silicon Valley fall for a Facebook bimbot? http://t.co/pRZMLAJ

Recognition is Creepy

Everyone stop uploading photos of people to Facebook RIGHT NOW.

The only winning move is not to play. --- Karen, still not on FB

Facebook created a huge, photo-searchable database of its users. And yes, it's terrifying. It will be implementing facial recognition technology for all users starting 7/11, semi-automating the photo-tagging process. You can "opt-out" of the service, but it's a pretty weak consolation. After all, opting out won't keep Facebook from gathering data and recognizing your face--it'll just keep people from tagging you automatically.
Facial recognition technology will ultimately culminate in the ability to search for people using just a picture. And that will be the end of privacy as we know it--imagine, a world in which someone can simply take a photo of you on the street, in a crowd, or with a telephoto lens, and discover everything about you on the internet.

So not only should you opt out of Facebook's facial recognition technology by going to Account > Account Settings > Privacy > Customize Settings > Things Others Share and disabling "Suggest photos of me to friends," you should also upload random pictures of trees and animals and stuffed toys and tag them as yourself.

HOW TO GET OFF FACEBOOK

While your Facebook page is visible, copy and paste this link into your Web address bar: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Click “Enter.”

2. Read this screen and then click “Submit.”

3. The “Permanently Delete Account” screen will automatically pop up. Type your account password and whatever else they want and you're done. You'll get deactivated and will be deleted within the next 14 days.

OR you can e-mail Facebook and ask them to delete your account. Send your request to privacy@facebook.com. If Facebook doesn't respond, e-mail them again, but also send the e-mail to support@facebook.com and info@facebook.com.

During the two weeks you're waiting for Facebook to delete your account, don't log on to the site. Doing so will automatically reactivate your profile and you'll have to go though these account deletion steps all over again.

If you want to make sure you don't inadvertently rejoin Facebook, make sure you delete any site-related cookies and Web browser history. Also, don't click on any Facebook links while you're visiting other sites until the 14-day waiting period is past.

Resources

Rules for Search Media

Social Networks

K12 Social Networking: Defining Cultural Literacy and Technological Literacy SOCIAL NETWORKS EXPLAINED #21st century Literacy Skills

K12 Twitter and Social Networking BusinessHow To Resources, Suggestions, and Tools. Twitter can also get your business in trouble if you breach privacy laws.

How to report a problem and get an underage kid off facebook. SOCIAL NETWORKS EXPLAINED #21st century Literacy Skills #parent facebook #underage kid

Work Place Twitter Tools and Social Networks

How to Get Content Noticed by Search Engines

Viral Marketing

Search Engines

What gets remembered in a Search Cache

Career Search Engines / Jobs

How Remove Personal Information from Google.